Původní popis
Becker, V. E. & Shcherbachev, Yu. N. 1990. Benthopelagic species of the families Neoscopelidae and Myctophidae from the Indian Ocean, with a description of a new species of Diaphus. Voprosy Ikhtiologii v. 30 (no. 5): 845-855.
Použitá literatura
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2024. Eschmeyer's catalog of fishes: Genera, species, references. World Wide Web.